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posted by on Sunday May 21 2017, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-default-SN-color-is-pretty-close-to-Grass-Bat dept.

So if you've ever picked out paint, you know that every infinitesimally different shade of blue, beige, and gray has its own descriptive, attractive name. Tuscan sunrise, blushing pear, Tradewind, etc... There are in fact people who invent these names for a living. But given that the human eye can see millions of distinct colors, sooner or later we're going to run out of good names. Can AI help?

For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue color values) Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?

The answer, not surprisingly, is no. But some of them are hilarious. My own personal favorites are Gray Pubic (close to aqua blue), Clardic Fug (brownish green), and Stanky Bean (inexplicably a rather nice dusty rose).

http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @04:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @04:34PM (#513053)

    The names are bullshit and just used for marketing purposes. If you really want to know what the color is, you'd need something like what they use for computers, a string of numbers to indicate how the colors are mixed or possibly the wavelength of the color.

    The names are mostly there for marketing purposes and quite frankly, there's too many of them already to be meaningful to anybody.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @04:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @04:43PM (#513058)

    Coding a random word generator with a neural network is unnecessary overkill.
    Coding a random word generator and calling it an "AI" is trendy bullshit.

    This tweeting womyn blogger is all about the trendy marketing bullshit.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 22 2017, @04:38PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday May 22 2017, @04:38PM (#513571)

    So, a color isn't so much of a single wavelength, but more of a spectrum of absorption and/or reflection intensities. There may be one "dominant" average wavelength, but green is definitely perceived differently from purple, even though the average wavelength of the blue and red peaks that make purple lies somewhere near monochromatic green. A flat, neutral density grey will appear different to the eye than a color that reflects a half dozen equal peaks and troughs across the visual spectrum. The first might be called "neutral density grey," while the latter might be called "gives me a weird headache when the sun shines on it grey."

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